Emma Woodward
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Year 3 Student – 2021 Intake – Cohort 3 I have a design and innovation background which spans the Automotive Industry, Femtech (Female Technology) and cutting-edge manufacturing research. My research is looking at building a socio-technical, holistic view of cyber security incident response, using creative methodologies to speculate what it could look like in the future. I'm inspired by the creative ingenuity attackers used to exploit people, products, processes and systems in novel ways. Therefore, I see the potential for creative methodologies to enable multidisciplinary co-creation of novel solutions, to protect from and respond to attacks. I have a passion for problem solving in the big picture and experience taking products from concept through to manufacture, giving me an appreciation for both the technical and social aspects of cybersecurity. I am looking for partnerships with incident response teams to bounce ideas around and dream about the future of CSIRTS with. |
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Constructing a holistic view of cyber incident response using Systems Thinking and re-imaging its future using creative methodologies Organisations are required to rapidly adapt to an ever-evolving threat landscape to defend themselves against attacks that are getting more sophisticated (Ahmad et al., 2020). Although a significant amount of work has been put into researching and developing the technical side of cyber security incident response (IR), more research is required into the practice of IR from a sociotechnical perspective to tackle the problems faced by organisations (O'Neil et al., 2021, Steinke et al., 2015). Moreover, in order to design and engineer effective solutions, a broader contextual awareness is key to understanding unbiased approaches to improving IR (Nyre-Yu et al., 2019). A holistic approach that treats IR as a whole system instead of separate parts or components is needed (L, 2022). Design thinking and speculative design practices can be used as innovation tools to explore this dynamic problem space. Therefore, this research is focused on pairing a systems engineering approach to understand the complex system of IR, with design and creative methodologies to provide innovative solutions and ways to reimagine the future of IR. Supervisors: Professor Adam Joinson (Bath), Dr Barney Craggs (Bristol), and Professor Danaë Stanton Fraser (Bath)
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